Beam Me Up:The Creation of Star Trek

Clive Young explores how creator Gene Roddenberry first envisioned the original TV show as a western in space, and then steadily built a team of legendary actors, brilliant writers and clear-sighted directors who brought the original crew’s story to life across a TV series, animated children’s show and six feature films between 1966 and 1991. Aimed at both beginner and longtime fans, the program follows Star Trek‘s long, tumultuous history and its continuing impact on pop culture around the world.

Clive Young is the very popular author of Homemade Hollywood, Fans Behind the Camera and many other publications. Young is an author/lecturer covering the crossroads between high tech and popular culture. While he has covered the music industry as the senior editor of Pro Sound News for more than 15 years, he has also written for MTV, VH1, American Songwriter, Music Business International, Wine Enthusiast and other outlets. His latest book, Homemade Hollywood (Continuum; 2008), covers the emerging ‘fan film’ culture, and received rave reviews from Total Film, the Times Literary Supplement and others, including Cory Doctorow, who called it “real treasure, an inspiration.” His first book, Crank It Up (Backbeat Books; 2004), profiled the world’s top roadies, receiving strong reviews from Billboard, Hit Parader, and specialist press. Clive Young has been a popular speaker at dozens of universities, libraries and conventions across the USA.